Gas-producer.



i .No. 874,458. PATENTED DEC. 24, 1907,

W. TOWNS.

GAS PRODUCER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 13,1905.

BQ'theprQducer, 4. air injector,

efication, reference being had to the accoming to my invention.

the crude gases through incandescent injector; to the'lower part of the chamber 7 but so as not to come'in contact with the gas Gasrnonncna, 1

' No. 874,458; v Speoifleationof Letters Patent.

Application filed November 13.1905. Serial No. 287.152.

To all whom it may concern; I I inserted to push exhausted material from Be a known that. I, wammrowm; a lthe bottom of subject of the of Great Britain, residing ducer 1. at Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, 15 are sight hol'es'to Improvements in or Connected with Gasguide for the proper regulation of air to said Producers, of which'the following is a speci:

chambenq In operation the non-bituminous cardrawings, on which v v Figure lis a vertical centraLsection and; ignited andraised to incandescence by air Fig. 2 a horizontal sectionat the line A. A. blown in through the pipe 10 either continuonFig.10fagasproducereonstruetedaecordously or intermittently:

r 'fromthe producer 1 pass The invention relates to apparatus} for producing combustible gas by bi-' tuminous coal with an insuflicient supply of air, and the object is to provide meanswhereby the crude gasesthus produced-Will be enriched and purifiedlfrom tar, soot, &c.

- The invention consists essentially in pass? rallying and out through. present being thereby decomposed into GO and anytarryvajpors, soot converted into permanent gases,

in-time carried down through the producer 1 into the ash well 6. In purification and enrichment, the above described arrangements allow of the producer 1 being Worked ata higher temperature than non bituminous carbonaceous material, such as coke, which when exhausted for; purification purposes may be pushed. into the gas producer as apart of the fuelsupply. Referring to the drawingsj l is a'gas pro-- ducer of any usual kind having the gas outlet 2 at the u per side, 3 blower for supplying air or air an steam to the bottom of t e fuel in 5 fuel supply producedthan hithertohasjbeen the case.

It is necessary that the air sup .chamber .7 carefully regulate so as to maintain the carbonaceous material therein hopper,- 6 Well-fer ashes.

7 is an approximately vertical chamber lined with refractory material and disposed adjacentto the producer 1, the gas outlet 2 of which'leads into the lower side of the chamber 7.

'8 is the gas outlet from the'upper part of cient to convert any of the final gases into C0,. It is necessary thatsuch air beadmitted to come in contact I stance only and not with the crude gas from the producer. The air is therefore admitted into the columniof coke by an inlet at some the chamber7. -The chamber 7 is nearly distance from that of the entrance of the gas filled and-maintained so, with non-bitui from the roducer, into the column of coke. minous carbonaceous-material by means of What claim is zthe charging'hopper 9. I i I v 1. "The combination with a gas producer of 10 is a pipe for admitting air say from the a vertical purifying chamber arranged laterally to the gas pro ucer and (pirovidedwith a gas outlet at its upper end an constructed to contain nonbitun'unous material and having an' approximately horizontal lateral passage coming from the outlet 2 thus preventing combustion of such gas: and 11 are grate bars for partly supporting the carbonaceous material and allowing better distribution of producer and a regulable air supply to the the. air: In this arrangement, at the side of chamber disposed on the opposite side therethe column of carbonaceous material oppoof to the crude gas inlet and separated theresite to that at which the gas from the profrom by the mass of nonbituminous carbolating i naceous' materiaLsubstantially as described. 2, The combination with a gas producer of a vertical purifying chamber arranged laterducer -enters, 12 ,is'a valve for re the .air supply, 13 door for emptying c amber 7 14 doors through which a pusher can bei Patented Dec. e4, 1907.

the chamber 7' into the proobserve thecondition England, have invented new and useful 'of incandescenee hamber7 and to'form a' 'bonaceous material in the chamber 7 is the crude gases through the outlet 2 up the column of incandescent material the outlet '8:- any CO 70 &c. being also.

or intercepted by the carbonaceous material and thereby I addition to the direct 'usual,w hereby less tarry vapors and soot are ly to the at incandescence without admitting air sufiias above mentioned with the hot coke or other carbonaceous subfrom thelower part into the upper part of the" ally to the gas producer and provided with a f regulable air supply to the chamber under 10 gas outlet at its upper end and constructed to the grate, substantially as described.

contain nonbitummous material .and having In testimony whereof I have signed my an approximately horizontal lateral passage name to this specification in the presence of from the lower pa into the upper part of two subscribing Witnesses.

the producer, a grate disposed onthe opp0- WVILLIAM TOWNS. site side of thechamber to the crude gas in- Witnesses: let and separated therefrom 'by the mass of i W. B. JOHNSON,

nonbitunnnous carbonaceous material, and a l V F. C. SPENCER. 

